Goliath Toys

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Goliath Toys

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legal form GmbH
founding 2007
Seat Dreieich , Germany
Branch Toys , board game
Website www.goliathgames.de

Goliath Toys is the German subsidiary of the Dutch game publisher Goliath BV, which produces parlor and board games and sells them across Europe. Goliath Toys was founded in 2007, is headquartered in Dreieich in the Offenbach district in Hesse (previously in Hohenwestedt) and has seven employees. The publisher offers strategy and action games as well as toys for children and families as. A red square with the publisher's lettering and an integrated cube serves as the company logo. Goliath-Verlag sells a total of 172 products. In addition to the German branch there are also some in France, the USA and Spain.

history

In 1980, Adar Golad founded Goliath BV in the Netherlands and, with strategy and action games, set the direction for the publishing house and its European subsidiaries in Germany, Belgium, Spain and France, among others. It all began with the game Rummikub : Even before the company was founded, Adi Golad discovered this game while on vacation in Israel and adopted the idea. In 1983 Rummikub was nominated for the "Game of the Year Netherlands" toy award. In Germany, Rummikub is distributed by Jumbo Spiele . In 1989 Goliath won the “Game of the Year Netherlands” award with the game Triominos . A German subsidiary was founded in September 2007.

The establishment on the German market took place, for example, through the action games “pigs rind”, “cheese kaos”, “Kackel Dackel” or the educational game “lattice puzzle”. Games such as “ Panic Tower! "Or" Triominos ". The publisher is thus pursuing a three-pillar strategy. The mainstay are family games like “Rolit”, “Loopit”, “Time No Time” or “Exago”. These games come in different versions for different age groups. Action games for children and young people such as “pigs rind”, “Bello Fass”, “Go! Gorilla ”,“ Nasty Flies ”,“ Kaos Cheese ”or“ Kackel Dackel ”have established themselves as a second pillar alongside the classic Goliath games and can sometimes also be used as party games. The third mainstay is made up of classic toys, for example “Domino Express”. There are different ways to build worlds with dominoes and several attractions, only to let them fall over again. The Robo Fish, which Goliath has been selling in Germany since 2013, was the number one top seller in September 2013 among companies with a turnover of 0-10 million euros.

Awards

  • TOP 10 toys
    • 2008 Top 10 Award for "pork rind"
    • 2008 nomination for "Loopit"
    • 2009 nomination for "grid puzzle"
    • 2010 nomination for "Panic Tower"
    • 2010 nomination for "Kaos Cheese"
    • 2010 nomination for "Taximania"
    • 2013 Top 10 Award for "Robo Fish"
  • Children's game test of the Federation of German Catholic Youth ( BDKJ ) Darmstadt:
    • 2010 grid puzzle: 1st place in the age group from eight to thirteen years
    • 2010 Panic Tower: 2nd place in the age group from five to nine years
    • 2013 Stille Post Extreme: 2nd place in the age group from eight to thirteen years

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred G. Kropfeld (Ed.): TOYS international. International trade magazine. (= 19th year. Issue 11/2013). ITM Verlag, Ebermannstadt 2013, ISSN  1861-7689 , p. 10.